Bittersweet Bittersweet

Bittersweet

A Novel

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Publisher Description

Suspenseful and cinematic, New York Times bestseller Bittersweet exposes the gothic underbelly of an idyllic world of privilege and an outsider’s hunger to belong.

On scholarship at a prestigious East Coast college, ordinary Mabel Dagmar is surprised to befriend her roommate, the beautiful, wild, blue-blooded Genevra Winslow. Ev invites Mabel to spend the summer at Bittersweet, her cottage on the Vermont estate where her family has been holding court for more than a century. Mabel falls in love with midnight skinny-dipping, the wet dog smell that lingers near the yachts, and the moneyed laughter that carries across the still lake while fireworks burst overhead. Before she knows it, she has everything she’s ever wanted: friendship, a boyfriend, access to wealth, and, most of all, for the first time in her life, the sense that she belongs.

But as Mabel becomes an insider, a terrible discovery leads to shocking violence and reveals what the Winslows may have done to keep their power intact--and what they might do to anyone who threatens them. Mabel must choose: either expose the ugliness surrounding her and face expulsion from paradise, or keep the family’s dark secrets and make Ev's world her own.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2014
May 13
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
400
Pages
PUBLISHER
Crown
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
9.7
MB

Customer Reviews

Somica ,

Over the top ending

I was able to guess the twists and turns before they happened. Despite that, the story kept my interest. The ending, however, is so over the top that I was surprised there wasn't a vampire, murdering identical twins, and a transvestite thrown in for good measure.

prescottjewels ,

Great Read!

From the beginning to the end this book is a page turner. Both a love story and a mystery this book spans a family’s sordid history set on a lake in Vermont.

A weird sister ,

Excellent!

A very enjoyable read. When i wasn't reading it , I was thinking about what a read. Loved it!

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